Posted on 10/18/2014 8:55:50 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Cuba stands ready to cooperate with the United States in the battle against Ebola, former leader Fidel Castro said in an article published Saturday.
Cuba is sending about 460 doctors and nurses to West Africa to help fight Ebola, an effort that was praised on Friday by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. […]
“With pleasure we will cooperate with U.S. personnel in that task,” the 88-year-old ex-leader wrote in the Communist Party daily Granma. He said it would not be to seek peace between two countries long at odds, but “for the peace of the world.”
Castro did not say what form cooperation might take. …
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This is one subject that Ol’ Fidel is an expert in. Death.
And of course Kerry snaps to attention.
What will happen is the disease will likely be introduced to Cuba so it can deal with it as well.
Frankly, Cuba should just sit this one out.
what? are they going tp donate a fleet of 1950’s chevy tazicabs???
I wonder how the volunteers are chosen.
Castro has a better appreciation of the potential of an Ebola pandemic than do our rulers.
who doesn’t like whirled peas?
The administration probably has the same hope in Cuba’s health system that Michael Moore has.
They will send , for a small fee, any number of ‘Cuban physicians’.
Such a deal!
About the same price as a nursing assistant!
And same skill level.
He usually sends them for hard cash. I wonder if this is an Obama back-door deal to fund the Castros? Can’t help it, its how my mind works.
perhaps not up to the skill level.... of an American Nursing Assistant
“Cuba would cooperate with US against Ebola”
Slight restatement, perhaps, and a subtle but real difference in effect.
“Cuba would cooperate with US in matters dealing with Ebola”
The very top of the “leadership” of the territory once known as “the United States of America” is dealing with Ebola, by making its importation to the territory a very real fact, and to the degree possible, make it into the pandemic it threatens to become. Not only are the persons fleeing this stricken area streaming into the North American continent, for a goodly portion of that destination, there are effectively NO restrictions on their entry. If, for instance, they manage to get to Mexico, there is little or no impediment placed in their way to cross the northern border of Mexico into what is virtually a wide-open and frankly, a very inviting destination. But they may take an only slightly circuitous route, and gain entry relatively easily anyway, directly into the territory, with no serious or meaningful screening of any sort.
Plus, now large number of uniformed servicemen are being sent INTO the disease-stricken regions, to deal directly with the ravages of the deadly disease, when these soldiers return home to the territory of their nativity, almost certainly a particular percentage will be bearing the beginnings of the infectious agent, and spread it far and wide across the region here.
Cuba would be most pleased to see the “Yanquis” placed under such a burden as this health care nightmare shall impose.
It’s here, it’s virulent, and there are no known effective methods of controlling its spread being applied.
It is not that the means are not available, it is bureaucratic inertia and stupidity at high levels that stand in the way of effective control.
One tends to believe this level of administrative “incompetence” is a deliberate and highly implemented scheme to widely reduce the total population both here on the North American continent and around the world.
One need only recall the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, following the end of the Great War, to find a similar spread of a highly infectious agent and its effects.
Some 50 million people were estimated to died as a result of that outbreak. And the mortality rate for that disease was much less than that of Ebola.
I'm shocked Kerry, Obama, and Castro think alike... how can it be? /s
Strangely enough, I don’t see Leftists flying down there for the incredible health care. Wonder why...
They like zero's plan.
I wonder if any will contract Ebola, and if they will spread the disease through Cuba. (The US medical missionaries who contracted Ebola went voluntarily, they weren't conscripts.)
I wonder how many will wind up defecting to the US ?
” And of course Kerry snaps to attention.”
Now that Holder ran away, Kerry is the most destructive force we have, next to Obama. Everywhere Kerry travels, we lose big time! Kerry is a very dangerous incompetent fool.
Yes, I agree. His idea of sanity would land the rest of us in Belview.
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